Shah Shah a Go Go

 In a time of rising religious fascism most anarchs I know appear to remain " More Marxist than thou " anticapitalists and even promote quack spiritualism / Buddhism . I hope I'm wrong!

Amid the protests of late 1978, the French anarchist and former missionary Marie-Madeleine Hermet noticed that revolutionary energy among the poor and illiterate masses was increasingly expressed in religious terms. More troubling still was what she described as a “cult of personality surrounding Ayatollah Khomeini,” which gave the anti-Shah uprising the “air of a crusade.”

1979 Revolution: Black Friday - Wikipedia

The Italian paper Rivista Anarchica argued that Islamic authority was even more entrenched than political dictatorship because it was “rooted in people’s consciousness for millennia.”7

In July 1979, the German anarchist paper Freie Presse reported on the criminalization of homosexuality under the new regime and condemned revolutionary courts carrying out executions for sexual or moral offenses.8 One form of domination, the paper argued, had simply given way to another. Drawing comparisons to Nazi Germany and Castro’s Cuba—where “deviants” were sent to forced-labor camps—it concluded bitterly: “In Persia, the imperial plague has been driven out by religious cholera.”